eTech 2007: Ajax Unplugged

March 29, 2007

Kevin Henrikson, Director of Engineering from Zimbra talks about Ajax Unplugged: Architecture and Tips for Taking Your Applications Offline. Why is offline important?

Lack always-on internet access
Travel
ISP service interruptions
Remote; un-connected land and water.
More and more data lives in "the cloud"
You users are asking for it.

Why ajax ?

Data closer to the user (Akamai principle)
Performance (client and server)
Clear simple programming model
Same UI both online/offline

What solutins are out there today ?

Roll your own:

salesforce.com
tiddlywiki - big emphasis
zimbra desktop

Then mentions the advantages and disadvantages from each solution, one at a time (see photos). After this, Kevin does a Zimbra Desktop demo. Zimbra Offline has some key features that were mentioned:

Cross-platform: mac, linux and win
Cross-browser: ff, ie, safari
Identical AJAX interface to online version
Micro server for sync, persistence and search
Support for large dataserts multi-gb
License: MPL/ZPL Opensource
Availability: Zimbra Desktop Alpha

Challenges for the developer:

Selecting what to take offline
Sync is hard
End-user Desktop support
Upgrades and patches

I asked him if they see Zimbra running inside Apollo, the answer is they're still evaluating that possibility. Theoretically it would work but there are some issues with their local JRE agents and some thinking is required before a decision is made. This presentation is available on Zimbra's blog here

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Hyped Gears at Celso Martinho: +

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[...] envisioned months ago, I fail to understand the wow effect, really. I had that wow when Zimbra demoed the concept over at eTech 2007. Sure, it’s Opensource, and works with almost all platform combinations, and I’m not [...]

Thursday, May 31. 2007 at 23:36 (Link) (Reply)

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